Today two dozen Shia were blown up in Bagdad.
Today 120 Shia were blown up in Islamabad.
Today shelling, snipers and air attacks killed hundreds in Syria. Human body parts litter the streets. Most will not get a proper burial.
The greatest killer of Muslims today are NOT Westerners, Christians, or Jews.
The greatest killer of Muslims today are Muslims from a rival sect/ rival tribe.
The Sunni are out to exterminate the Shia and vice versa.
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Sass-mouth Web Bloggers are the LEAST of the problem of the Muslim World.
You may be normal, but your son is a secret closet jihadist who is secretly accumulating a weapons cache, homemade explosives and plans to join the Taliban in Pakistan.
The first step to problem solving is to properly diagnosis the TRUE PROBLEM.
And it may be as close and as complex as your relation with your teen age angst-ridden son who is angry at society and the world--enough to kill.
Good Muslims must actively STOP THE VIOLENCE AND TERROR...not just pray 5 times a day.

"And that is why, economically Islamic countries will never ever be successful" - your comment. It seems that you have not traveled much outside India. Have you been to Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, etc.??

Have you ever wondered as to what happens to Non-Muslims who marry Muslims?
It may be that they may not convert to Islam themselves, But the Muslim partner will force the Children to be Muslims.... as demanded by the Koran.
And then when these Muslim children grow up and they get discriminated against, and in a fit of depression the young men will turn to the Koran.
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The Koran will tell them that if the non-Muslims do no convert, they must be killed.
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And now you have an extremist terrorist, born to someone who was never a Muslim in the first place.

To uphold that the majority of Islamic communities are peaceful and moderate ignores the teachings they uphold in hadith.

I don;t believe that statement.

Extremism comes from intolerance, and usually backed up by the written word.
So far we know that Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, most Gulf countries are very intolerant.
For example in a place like Dubai - I, as a hindu, am not even allowed ti be a witness in a court. Other non-muslims have only half the points alloted to them in court.
In sharia law - a rape need s 4 MALE MUSLIM witnesses. This makes for lot's of cases where they find no witnesses.
If I were a witnesses to a rape, I am only an animal in a Sharia court.... and so I am not allowed to be a witness.

That is STONE age philosophy.

THAT is incredible intolerance - WE DO NOT treat Muslims like that in India.Intolerance and non-pluralism are the grounds that Islam walks on.
And that is why, economically Islamic countries will never ever be successful

Any body not following Islam is considered to be a KAFIR as per the interpretation of radical clerics with absolutely no right to live on the earth. It’s a well known fact that Muslim extremism had risen during the cold war era. United States created and promoted it for using against Soviets. Extremism was otherwise confined to Middle East which is also a creation of Americans. Islamic fundamentalists have crossed almost all limits of tolerance and attempting to monopolize all human activities on the earth, both private and public. Islam is a variety of another totalitarian ideology, religious fascism. Like all previous such aggression and domination attempts such as Hitler’s racist Nazism, Soviet Communism, British & Japanese Imperialism, this one is also going to collapse.

While they want world to go back to Sharia and Hadith and stone age,they have no qualms using latest technology to spread oldest human trait- violence.Humans have taken thousands of years to learn that violence does not pay.These people are out to unlearn it all.But then England or Europe or Americans should not be complaining.Islamists are not only using latest technologies to sell jihad,they are using democracy, human right acitivism and Western jurisprudence to further their own cause.This is time for the developed,non Muslim world to close these "windows" for Jihadis.

and lastly - ever worked out why they mostly marry their cousins?
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Easy - those are the only faces they ever see - besides their mothers and sisters..
The rest are not attractive because they are hidden under a veil.

and Maybe it is this deformities ( usually very slight) that makes them so extremists.

Let me tell you the ral differen ce between Shia and Sunni Muslims.
(1) In Shia Islam, all the Koran interpretations are done by their Imam.... so that all the Ayatollah Khameini interporets the Koran for the people.
Thus the culture of Shia Islam can evolve.This means that in time, liberalism will eventuate as it seems to have in many branches of Shia Islam.
Alm ost always the head of each sect is well educated and usually broad minded.... BUT never violent
WITH THE SUNNIS - no-one is allowed to interpret the Koran. BUT IN REAL life the local priest( Mullah) is the only one who understands the Arabic of the Koran and so in effect each Mullah interprets the Koran in their own way.
AND OF COURSE - If the Mullah wants more money from his flock - he will probably be radical.
(2) The Shias ARE NEVER aggressively violent as the Sunnis tend to be.
They ARE NEVER EVER EXTREMISTS. They might help defend their brethren as Iran does with Lebanon and Syria, BUT they will never ever be the first to attack.
THEREFORE - None of the terrorists have ever been Shias. The Attacks in Pakistan and Iraq are always against the Shias - NOT by them.
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All this comes to you for your education from a man who is not a muslim and never wants to be one, and also hopes that his progeny will never be so stupid.

Not sure what value this article adds to the discussion. Whenever I see a piece in the Economist I look forward to reading it, but this was a let down. A single line that read, ''extremists communicate in various languages and use social media,'' would have been sufficient (that's even less than 140 characters...). Seriously, the investigative nature of this article amounts to someone carrying out a quick google search and drawing even quicker conclusions.

Why not dig deeper and present something which demonstrates how language and social media are 'actually' facilitating the rise of extremism and perhaps even how, if at all, anyone is trying to counter that. Quite frankly, most tabloid journalists have more twitter followers than al-shabbab's 20,000; in fact, most moderate Muslim leaders, who denounce extremism, have each got considerably more followers than al-shabbab.

More Muslims are dying fighting fellow Muslims.Eg Pakistani JIhadis are killing fellow Muslims because they are Shias or Ahmedias.Syrians are killing Syrians,Afghans are killing Afghans.It is free for all within Islamic world.

SORRY - I tell a lie.
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One more point - Why is there so much sexual crime, in liberal places like Denmark, that is perpetuated by Muslims ?
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Because they live in a liberal culture within which they themselves are from a very illiberal group.
That is just too tempting from them.
The proof is all around you

Not sure why in 2013 with the rise of Islamophobia and the far-right brainlessly attacking Muslims and firebombing mosques we still have headlines in respectable media juxtaposing images of women in Muslim attire with words like 'extremist'. Grow up and let's have a serious debate about extremism but stop the sensationalism which demonises a whole community of 'islamic' believers which are 99.99999% moderate and good citizens.

Mali has been invaded by the french and so many innocents have been killed by the french terrorists! Infact, France claims to support liberty and freedom yet it is so hypocritical that it bans women who wish to dress modestly from doing so?!?! This is sheer hypocrisy!
I wonder, if The Economist is also being hypocritical by claiming the freedom fighters as terrorists and the ones actually fighting for greedy resources as freedom fighters (the french soldiers in mali)??

So now the noble West has to grapple with Islamic extremism after beating the evil Communism!
How else can one justify the trillions being spent on war machine that is killing maiming Africans Afghanis,Pakistanis Palestinians and any where Muslims can be found.
And how and who decides who is an "extremists" among billion plus Muslims?
Obviously it has to be CIA the MOSSAD,the British French and India Plus any country that has Muslims living there.And who dare to ask for their fair share.
The much maliagned Islamic word Jihad needs to be studied with cooler heads.
To begin with what I have come to know about Jihad is a personal struggle and internalised one to better one self.
Its outward expression requires one to fight against injustice,oppression,removing suffering etc.
While we read and watch movies extoling the achievemets of Western powers in their victories in the hordes of wars,Jihad is routinely ridiculed cursed.
I was struck in the Economist piece when it quoted Washington Institute of Near East Policy.It is an Israeli front which uses every opportunity to demonise Arabs and Islam.
Once the West acknowledges its record of pillaging and injustice it has been inflicting on Islamic world all this will fade away.
To fight an illness you have to look for what is causing it.
The so called "Jihadis" are using modern technologies just as USA uses them to "win minds and hearts of the world" for its political goals.
If it is ok with USA,Europe why it is such a bad thing for the "Jihadis"